About Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie
Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie (CLC) is a professional dance organization based in Montreal that creates, produces and presents works of art on a local, national and international scale. Company works include those choreographed by Artistic Directors Laurence Lemieux and Bill Coleman, as well as commissions and collaborations with choreographers, composers, visual artists and communities. CLC was incorporated in 2000 in order to allow Artistic Directors Laurence Lemieux and Bill Coleman to fully develop and pursue their artistic vision.
Laurence Lemieux and Bill Coleman have been working together since 1991 on unique projects of artistic and social relevance. The originality of the company rests on the experiential strengths of its two Artistic Directors, both of their careers ranging from consummately professional stage projects that travel within the dance world, to large-scale site-specific multimedia projects that reach out to the world at large.
Since 1983, Bill Coleman has created over 50 choreographic works that have been presented in North America, England, Scotland and Russia, as well as organizing huge community-based projects in Saskatchewan and Ontario featuring world-renowned Canadian dance, music and visual artists in collaboration with local residents.
Laurence Lemieux presented her first choreography in 1983 and has since added more than 20 works to her repertoire, and was instrumental in creating and organizing the community-based projects. As perpetual students of the form, both continue to dance with other artists and companies. Laurence, regarded as one of Canada's finest dancers, has worked with Toronto Dance Theatre, James Kudelka, William Douglas, Fondation Jean Pierre Perreault and others, and in 1998 was awarded a Dora Mavor Moore Award for 'Outstanding Performance In Dance'.
Bill has danced with Anton Dolin and Dublin City Ballet, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane & Co., Toronto Dance Theatre, Tere O'Connor, William Douglas, Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, and as a guest artist for the Martha Graham Dance Company. In 2002, Bill was awarded the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Since 2000, Coleman Lemieux & Co. has produced a diverse array of projects exemplifying artistic excellence and a compassionate community voice, qualities which are at the very heart of its mission. After the success of the Taylor-Kudelka Project (which premiered Jan 15, 2006), CLC embarked on The Gros Morne Project, which took place in July 2006 in Newfoundland, developed with local residents and organizations, and soon to be the subject of a CBC film.